Awards

Teaching Awards

Ohio Magazine’s Excellence in Education Memorable Educators, 2007
Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education (SOCHE) Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2006
University of Dayton Alumni Award in Teaching 2006. This is the top university-wide teaching award at the University of Dayton. Past Recipients
First annual University of Dayton IEEE Professor of the Year Award, 2002
School of Engineering Award of Excellence in Teaching, University of Dayton, 1999 Awarded by the Dean of the School of Engineering
Nominated by the Dean of the School of Engineering for the University of Dayton Alumni Award in Teaching 1999
Who's Who Among America's Teachers, 1998 and 2000.

Rudolf Kingslake Medal and Prize from SPIE. Principal author on journal paper selected by the SPIE awards committee as the most noteworthy original paper to appear in Optical Engineering in 1998. Here is a link to the paper.
Best Student Paper Award – runner up (co-author), NAECON, July, 1998.
Best Student Paper Award (advisor and co-author), NAECON, July, 1998.
Best Student Paper Award (advisor and co-author), NAECON, May, 1996.
Best Student Paper Award (advisor and co-author), NAECON, May, 1995.
Dr. George Rappaport Best Paper Award – runner up, NAECON, May, 1995.

Senior Member of IEEE, 2001-2010.
Engineering Professor of the Year Award, from Epsilon Delta Tau, 1997.
Roy M. Glass Scholarship Award from the American Society of Metallurgy (ASM), 1988.
Engineering Science Award, Loyola College 1987.